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REGULATOR FOR GASOLINE ENGINES.

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Whit? WILLIAM J. FORSTER, F DALLAS, TEXAS.

REGULATOR FOR GASOLINE ENGINES.

Application filed October 8, 1921. Serial No. 506,351.

To all whom/it may concern: gasket 4 is provided with the usual open- Be it known that I, VILLIALI J. FORSTER, ings' 5 for the reception of the attaching a citizen of the United States, residing at bolts 6. Formed near the center of the Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State gasket are two openings 7, although a 45 5 of Texas, have invented certain new and greater or less number may be provided as useful Improvements in Regulators: for Gasodesired. A plate 8 having the wings 99 line Engines, of which the following is a is pivoted at the center of the gasket by full, clear, and exact description. means of the bolt 10.

My invention relates to a regulator or ad- In operation the plate 8 is turned to the 50 10 justable means to be used in connection with desired position, i. e., the position which will gasoline engines and has for its object to let in sufficient fuel to make the maximum provide such a device which may be placed speed requlred. The gasket is then put in between the carbureter and intake maniposltlon against the end of the intake and fold of the engine. the carbureter is bolted in place. 5

It is quite often desirable in connection In accordance with the patent statutes I with automobiles, especially taxi-cabs and have described what I now believe to be the like, to have some means to limit the the best embodiment of the invention, but I speed at which they may be driven and I do not wish to be understood thereby as have accordingly devised the present invenlimiting myself or the scope of the inven- 60 tion which is, in effect, a valve for regulat tion, as many changes and modifications may ing the amount of fuel which may pass to be made without departing from the spirit the engine. of the invention, all such I aim to include In the drawing; in the scope of the appended claims. Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of an IVhat I claim as new and desire to se- 65 engine and carbureter with my attachment cure by Letters Patent is:

in lace. A governor for gasoline engines com- Figure 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Figprlsin a fiat gasket of sheet material adapture 1. ed to be clamped directly between the car- Figure 3 is a plan view of the attachment bureter and engine, and a valve mounted on 70 with the valve in open position; and said gasket, said valve being free of projec- Figure 4 is a longitudinal section through tions and of less diameter than the inner the valve, the same being shown in closed diameter of the intake manifold. position. 2. The combination with the intake mani- Referring to the drawing more in detail, fold and carburetor of an internal combus 75 the numeral 1 designates the intake of an tion engine, of a flat gasket of sheet material internal combustion engine. Attached to clamped in direct contact with both the the lower end 2 of the intake is a carintake manifold and carburetor, a valve bureter 3. mounted on said gasket, said valve being Clamped between the carburetor 3 and free of projections and of less diameter than 80 intake 2 is a gasket l which may be made the inner diameter of the intake manifold.

of metal or other suitable material. The WILLIAM J. FORSTER. 

